The second attempt fails too. The resident no longer seems to care what the mother thinks. "Try a
different angle," he instructs the intern. "Hold it like this." Each try takes minutes - needle in, stylet out,
wait for fluid, stylet in, reposition, stylet out.... Nothing in hole number three. I learn later he was sticking
the needle in the wrong place.
On the fourth try, the intern was so flustered he accidentally just sticks the stylet into the child's back,
without the needle. I looked around the room. No one says anything. When the intern realizes what is
wrong.